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(1877) Peter H. Clark, “Socialism: The Remedy for the Evils of Society”

Peter Humphries Clark, principal of the Colored High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, was one of a small number of 19th Century African American Socialists. Grandson of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, schoolteacher and later Principal of the Colored High School in Cincinnati and staunch

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On Jan. 16, 2013, Islamic militants took dozens of foreign hostages at the BP-controlled In Amenas gas field in eastern Algeria, near the Libyan border. Algerian officials said the militants were members of an offshoot of al-Qaeda called Al Mulathameen and were acting in retaliation for Frances

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Goode, Wilson (1938- )

Best known as the first African American Mayor of Philadelphia, Woodrow Wilson Goode was born in 1938 into a family of tenant farmers near the town of Seaboard, North Carolina. Goode moved to Philadelphia with his family in

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(1901) William Hannibal Thomas on the American Negro

Nineteenth Century black conservative William Hannibal Thomas was a Civil War veteran, Reconstruction era South Carolina politician, and U.S. counsel to Portuguese Southwest Africa (Angola). He is most famous however as the author of the 1901 book, The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and

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Abyssinian Baptist Church, New York City (1808- )

AbyssinianBaptist church, currently located in Harlem, New York, was founded in 1808 whena group of black parishioners left First Baptist Church of New York due to the impositionof racially-segregated seating. ReverendThomas Paul, an African American minister from Boston, Massachusetts, assisted

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(1837) Theodore S. Wright, “Prejudice Against the Colored Man”

Rev. Theodore S. Wright, (1797-1847) was born to free parents in Providence, Rhode Island. By the 1830s Wright was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in New York City and a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Wright, a dedicated abolitionist, attended the New York State Anti-Slavery Society

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(1837) William Whipper, “Non-Resistance to Offensive Aggression”

? Few Americans are aware of the deep roots of peace activism in the African American community. Benjamin Banneker, the 18th Century mathematician and astronomer, recommended that a “Secretary of Peace” be added to the President’s cabinet whose chief function would be to craft measu

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Thomas Bradley was elected mayor of Los Angeles at a time when Blacks represente

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1973

Windhoek, Namibia (1840- )

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Sidney Poitier is an American actor and director, and the first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. He was born on February 20, 1927 to Evelyn and Reginald James Poitier who were farmers from Bahama. At the time of Poitier’s birth, his parents were in the U.S. to sell the

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1927

Beaty, Powhatan (1837–1916)

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Clarke, William D., Sr. (1941--)

Ambassador William Davis Clark was born in 1941. Currently, he is retired and resides with his wife, Katsuko M. Clarke, in Maryland. Clarke has two sons William Clarke Jr. and Robert Clarke, and one daughter, Christina Armstrong. In 1963, Clarke earned his bachelor’s degree at Howard

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(1888) Frederick Douglass On Woman Suffrage

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Ralph J. Bunche

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1950

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(1967) Martin Luther King, Jr., “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence”

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1967

Walker, Mary Edwards

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(1995) William Jefferson Clinton, “the Job of Ending Discrimination in This Counrt is Not Over”

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Zora Neale Hurston

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1891

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1981

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Remond, Charles Lenox (1810-1873)

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Desi Giles, a black man, receives death threats after portraying Jesus in the the Park Theater Performing Arts Center's annual production of the "Passion Play"

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1997

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Young, Andrew Jackson, Jr.

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